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and opened a secret door in the ceiling. Then they threw stones down and crushed the leader and his men. They then dismembered the bodies, cut off their heads and threw them to those outside. (2 Maccabees 1, 16)
When Lysimachus saw the people rising up in rebellion and becoming enraged, he armed about three thousand men and began a violent repression, designating as leader a certain Auranus, a man advanced in years but of very little intelligence. (2 Maccabees 4, 40)
Arriving in Jerusalem, under the pretext of peace, he waited until the holy day of the sabbath. Then he took the Jews by surprise as they rested. He ordered his men to conduct a military parade, (2 Maccabees 5, 25)
The Lord's anger turned into compassion, and as soon as Maccabeus had organized his troops, they became invincible against the pagans. Judas generally took advantage of the night for his military campaigns. (2 Maccabees 8, 5)
When Philip saw that Judas was making progress little by little and his victories increased from day to day, he wrote to Ptolemy, the military commissioner of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, to come and help him under the king's service. (2 Maccabees 8, 8)
But I thought of how my father would designate his successor whenever he set out for any military expedition into the uplands, (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
It was then that Gorgias was appointed military commissioner of those regions, and began to stir up war against the Jews by any means. (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
But the commanders of the different regions, Timotheus and Apollonius, the son of Genneus, as well as Hieronymus and Domophenes, and Nicanor, the leader of the Cypriots, would not let them live in peace and quiet. (2 Maccabees 12, 2)
And the king immediately chose Nicanor, who commanded the squadron of elephants, and appointed him military commissioner of Judea (2 Maccabees 14, 12)
Then, at their leader's command they set out to march, and the battle began near Dessau. (2 Maccabees 14, 16)
A roaring lion, a hungry bear, such is the bad leader of a poor people. (Proverbs 28, 15)
An artisan is judged by his work and a leader of the community, by the wisdom of his words. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 17)
